skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The aggressiveness of the short squeeze is unprecedented and can only be executed with aggressive cheap out of money call options. That looks like gamers to me :)
> and they seem to be a perfect fit

Needs a fairly capable server though, I suppose. One that can handle lots and lots of open websocket connections.
The SEC will step in and force GME to issue more shares is my guess. GME won’t care and they probably will collect a nice premium on what any CFO running a company like GameStop would dream of.
> So by that definition I live in a "socialist country"

Depending on the definition you want to use. If you want to use "socialism" as the opposite of "capitalism" then of course no, Germany isn't a "socialist country".

The being said Germany is a fairly "social" country in my book, very similar to France. They very often put the emphasis on the group rather than the individual (taxes, education, public infrastructures, health care, work/life balance, &c.)

But again we're mostly talking semantics and local usage of words here, the underlying principles are very easy to tell apart (I doubt anyone could tell with a straight face that Germany and the US are running on the same principles for example.) now some people use the word "socialism" to describe that or part of it

In France 20th century socialists fought a lot for workers rights, abolishing the death penalty, depenalizing homosexuality, warranting liveable minimum wages, earlier retirement age, paid vacations, paid parental leaves, &c, many of the rights we take for granted nowadays are direct or indirect achievements of socialists, which is logical since Europe (mostly invented and) soaked in socialism for the last 150+ years. That being said, yes modern France or Germany "socialism" evolved from their early definition but I still believe they're indefinitely more socialist than the US.

I feel like many people get trapped in the socialism = communism, communism = never worked, hence communism = bad, hence socialism = bad, as if it was a binary thing. I guess we could argue about the exact meaning of "socialism" in 2020 but I doubt we can argue that "socialism" deeply marked a lot of European countries
I wrote a toy digital circuit simulator[1] as part of a personal "NAND to Tetris" style project. It has none of the bells and whistles of a full simulator but does illustrate how you could write you own in only a few dozen lines of Python. It also has a kind of neat "declarative" syntax inspired by VHDL/Verilog where components (i.e., Verilog modules, VHDL entities) are defined as regular Python classes and describe their contents. For example, here's a half-adder component, which is comprised of a XOR gate and an AND gate:

class HalfAdder(Component):
def __init__(self, a, b, out=None, c=None):
super().__init__()
self.a = self.input(a)
self.b = self.input(b)
self.out = self.output(out)
self.c = self.output(c)

XOR(a=self.a, b=self.b, out=self.out)
AND(a=self.a, b=self.b, out=self.c)

having to declare each pin as input or output adds a lot of boilerplate; I was hoping to add a feature where input/output information could be declared using type annotations in the function signature itself. That would look something like:

class HalfAdder(Component):
def __init__(self,
a: input,
b: input,
out:output = None,
c:output = None):
super().__init__()

XOR(a=self.a, b=self.b, out=self.out)
AND(a=self.a, b=self.b, out=self.c)

which I think is starting to look pretty Verilog-ish, while still staying Pythonic.

[1]: https://github.com/olooney/circuit
> rather than employers paying the employees compensation to entice them to join.

Umm, people are paying $35k for an opportunity to break into the lucrative tech job market. Which indicates that the wages must be fairly enticing.

Lots of lucrative employment markets cost money to break into. One can't become a doctor, lawyer, dentist, etc without paying for an expensive specialty school.
>you're making it illegal to pay someone below a certain threshold, which stated differently is making it illegal for a sufficiently unskilled worker to get any job.

B does not follow from A if demand is elastic. Minimum wage proponents assume enough labor demand is elastic.
I guess it's worth pointing out that when mathematicians today use the word "topology" in conversation, they almost universally mean "algebraic topology." Point-set topology is as dead as the dodo.
I can DDOS the space by posting large text frequently.
Why can't IKEA furniture be used as firewood?
Fim is interesting, but I think most people (including myself here) don't worry about this because we rely on snapshots of backups. If a file was updated incorrectly then you just go back to the last known snapshot that worked.

Of course this is only as good as the interval you use for your snapshots. Fim seems like it would be a lot of extra work to do for every file/folder, but I could potentially see using Fim though for important files (e.g. tax records?, password vault?)
Chernoff Face
> Realtime updates. Sometimes, you want data to be pushed, not pulled (eg. for things like notifications). But the APIs for pushing and pulling data are often different, both on the client and on the server.

Two and a half months since Google announced the removal of HTTP Push[1]. There'd been a number of threads open (some 5 years old now) asking the Fetch spec to please include some way to allow the page to be notified of Push[2], which would have made HTTP Push super interesting & useful.

After 5 years, we never got anywhere, never got any help from standards body/google in trying to get Push useful. The topic came up a couple times when Abort was being worked on, and it seemed like maybe we'd see some progress, but those finer points got drowned among the noise of the Abort work.

And then Google announced we developers weren't using Push enough, & that they were going to drop it. Without ever having tried to make it useful in the first place.

HTTP/2 seemed to have such promise, was such elation finally getting released in 2015. Seeing so much promise go unfulfilled & then get cancelled has been quite dark. Unlike so so many of the alternatives that we are up to for data fetching, this path was both realtime & still http/resource centric. It still felt like core web architecture, in a way few others do. The unfulfilment of this destiny, this loss, has been jarring, & continues to leave us with these open quandries of what new entirely different alternatives do we invent, over WebSockets, over SSE, over WebTransport, &c. HTTP (almost) was here.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25064855

[2] https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/51

Edit: there was a deleted comment saying that this kind of use case is not what Push was for, is not there to send unprompted data. Technically, Push can only be done in reply to a http request, so there is a factual limitation. Web Push Protocol gets around this by holding a GET open, to allow "unprompted" data. I think a sizable amount of engineers at the time were indeed thinking of Push as an optimization, a way to get pages to load faster. But this contingent of folks who saw HTTP/2 Push enabling pushing data capabilities, who were hungry for it, who counted on it's maturation: I think they had reasonable expectations, and that we're in a very weird place on the web, with HTTP technically having the ability to push semi-unprompted, but browsers never delivering that capability that's now inbuilt in HTTP.

Using Push is still possible for so called unprompted updates even! At least it was till Push got removed. The trick is that the server needed some way to tell the browser which resources to send: so the server might be pushing resources, then using SSE to notify the page of those updates, for ex.
You’re not wrong, but are there pension funds that include revenue made from shorting stocks? Seems like a reckless practice if there are.
Or at least they should be if we both detach the stigma and stop lumping in things like Cannabis in with Crack
Gotta hit discord and telegram too

Telegram has threads now on announcement channels that are unlinked from discussion channels
Ember.js seems to check off a lot of those boxes, if you are willing to use a complete solution and not do the 'pick and choose' method of react and friends. While it has lost popularity in the last few years, it has been moving forward technically. It has become leaner and meaner.

Really learning the "Ember Way" to do things can reduce some of the friction the author mentions.

Ember Data can allow you to talk to multiple api backends (differing schemas) while presenting the same model to your UI. If you use the default JsonApi[0] based backend, you get a lot of things for free: powerful filtering, side loading data (relationships), consistent error handling. Sometimes it can be chatty, but that's a spot where HTTP2 can help.

Use ember-concurrency add-on and you have a nice way to manage your requests, things like de-bouncing, handling loading spinners, etc.

[0]https://jsonapi.org/format/
I've always been curious about this aspect of the markets. Is there a good reason for this special status/ability? From my naive point of view, it just looks like a small group of people are allowed to game the market by reacting to news that occurred during off hours before everyone else.
We did both. One delivery at home then two at centers. We liked the extra support a center provides.
I think I do understand them, from a value-investor's perspective. If I buy an option, I actually intend to exercise it or hold it until expiration, not hedge with it.

If I bought a GameStop put today, for the pricing in my post above, it would be because I was willing to make a strong bet that GameStop's intrinsic value in November would remain below $60/share and that I was fairly sure the market would return to its senses by then. How the option-seller reaches her offering price is entirely irrelevant to me.

It is true that much of the pricing of options comes from volatility, but for me, as a buyer, it is perhaps irrelevant.

Thanks for your perspective, though. I'll read your link with interest.
Reading through the comments on WSB, I actually don't think the losers care. They just want to see the short sellers suffer. They're just mad, and while I think they hope they make money, I think most of them just want to see the people they feel like control their lives suffer.

It's past clever trading at this point.
.. so all we need to do is create guest networks on every wifi network, put all routers around the world in public view, and print QR codes to stick next to them. Perfect!
Our customers are electrical engineers -- electrical engineers on small teams that need to move faster with fewer errors, all the way up to senior EEs with a few decades of experience who want to automate design validation to ensure consistent quality.

We haven't found programming skills to be a big blocker. You don't have to be an elite coder to use JITX. Most EEs have banged out a quick matlab or python script at some point, which is plenty of experience. We worked a lot on the semantics of the language to make it correspond to how EEs think about designs, which I beleive helps.

Not a one-way street -- you can flow designs back and forth between JITX and the CAD tools we support. It was hard for us to get working, but it is important. At least until we have all of PCB design fully automated.
Right now, I'm a junior software engineer at my company and I've been non-stop asking questions. This is what I notice after asking questions.

1. Most People Like Answering Questions

I notice that most often people are receptive to answering my questions. They like giving quite in-depth information about the project or certain parts of the code. Sometimes even more then what I was asking. In fact, sometimes they explain about parts I wouldn't be able to google or search up because it pertains specifically to the project.

2. Knowing when to stop.

Sometimes I notice some people do get annoyed at my questions so that's when I know that I should stop for the day. Knowing when to stop is also a skill to be developed over time.

3. Batching Questions

This both helped me to understand what I didn't know and be able to verbalize it. I write down my questions and 3 things happens in this process.

One result is that I discover the answer to my question. I was framing the question in the wrong way. I either know the answer or through framing the question realize what is the answer.

Second thing is just clarifying whether the question is something I am able to search or find on the web. This tells me it's that my knowledge on this topic or subject requires more research on my part.

Lastly, it displays that I respect the other individual's time. My working time is not worth the same value to the company, wage or impact as the senior engineer. Usually, they have more responsibilities and important tasks to delegate or manage. By batching together questions, they know that I made the effort to list these questions to ask at the same time.

All this is what I gather after 1 month of working at my company.

Edit: Also I stopped caring about looking competent. I feel confident in the fact that if I don't know something, I'll be able to find it or learn it. Rather than, being confident in my own ability to appear smart or look competent. That at the end of the day is more important to me. Competency in engineering is managing what you don't know and learning how to find the resources to tackle what you don't know.
That said, we do need some better standards. I look after a bunch of API integrations at work and we have everything from SOAP to GraphQL to downloading a magically named .xml.gzip file in a FTP directory with at least 10 other homemade REST implementation between and every single one of them is basically returning the same info but in wildly incompatible ways.

At least the SOAP one crashes when they change the API without telling us :/
> Who has the money to keep buying at $350 to propel the stock to $400

Delta hedging, potentially

> But there's 55M shares trading at all time highs

55M is the float but there's nowhere near that much actively available. Fidelity and Blackrock together own about 25M I think [0], along with other institutional investors as well as staff in stock incentives. Some of this will be liquidated as the price goes up but not all of it.

[0] https://news.gamestop.com/stock-information/institutional-ow...
No, "stonks" is a meme joke currently going around. Elon Musk has said it multiple times.
If no one is selling GME, but someone is willing to buy GME, and GME actually gets to pocket the cash, that sounds like it would be in the long-term interest of GME shareholders to me. But like I've said elsewhere, I'm an idiot.
I didn't watch all the videos, but so far as I write this post, it does not appear that shorts have covered, or started covering (at least as of this morning). It seems like the price hike is due to big buyers and gamma squeezes. There's been systematic short attacks in an attempt to drive the stock down, but they keep getting neutralized by big buyers. It's been a wild ride.
Agree. What they gain in salary will offset that for sure. It will affect just people who currently earn those $15 as they will need to renegotiate due to small increases in prices and also they relative productivity.
> What we should really worry about is the poverty gap - the amount of income people need to get people above the poverty line.

Is that not showing an increase right now too? I mean, I don't disagree that serious analysis needs more info than a single number. But... what's the policy distinction here that you're trying to argue?

There's no mystery to the current situation: people are out of work due to the pandemic and making a lot less money, and that's bad.

Edit: two replies have responded by repeating the theoretical distinction and proposing scenarios where the two metrics would diverge. I understand that part. I'm asking if there is any evidence RIGHT NOW that this is the wrong metric to look at. Because naively, you'd really expect that people losing a lot of jobs to covid would simultaneously increase the population of people below the poverty line AND the average/median incomes of those people already below it. And if that's true, and it seems to be, why are we arguing about minutiae about metrics? The cause, and the solution, is the same in either case.
This only holds true for places where there's no room to increase the staffing budget.

There are some industries where it might have an effect, restaurants/coffee shops in particular. But I wouldn't expect mass produced goods/foodstuffs to increase much if at all, simply because of how efficiently the labour is utilised.

There are also be potential productivity gains from having workers in a more financially stable position.
It's not a great working environment nor does it provide the best experience but compared to a service job it's miles ahead. They're paid above the national median and get a chance at a career where they can make several times the national median. Way better than making 30k as a waiter.
They are all drinking from the same self-righteous well of "morality". The fact that they consider themselves "advanced" also seems to translate that they are also "correct" in all matters, regardless of their expertise.
Quoting ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunde...

"From the beginning of 2006 to October 2013, A-10s conducted 19 percent of CAS missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, more than the F-15E Strike Eagle and B-1B Lancer, but less than the 33 percent flown by F-16s."

...and...

"The U.S. Army had expressed interest in obtaining some A-10s should the Air Force retire them"

I am not sure why SAMs aren't the threat to the A-10s that they were to Soviet helicopters in Afghanistan. Maybe the Taliban can't afford them? Also SAMs require training and degrade quickly if not maintained.
Wasmer, WebAssembly Runtime and Container Format Alternative
Have you ever heard of the term "christian atheist". Your post reminded me about a video by the Youtuber Innuendo Studios titled "I hate Mondays".

(The following is my opinion taken from anecdotes about myself and reading about other philosophical works. I am not an expert on this subject).

The idea of "having a soul" is a core belief that is needed to hold up ideas of morals and debt. It's an idea perpetuated because people want to be flattered and people in positions of power can use it to influence the masses. As an example, think about when a person refuses to vote "for the lesser of two evils" in the US presidential election. From a utilitarian perspective, voting for the lesser does have benefit: it mitigates damage. But to the voter, it doesn't feel that way. "Having a soul" Does provide social value. Not voting for the lesser of two evils preserves ones integrity.

Granted I'm not saying people should transition to Realpolitik.
That is much better.

The Japanese photos I think one could reasonably say "I don't care what lens they're using that's still a lot of people." Whereas those photos, there's a clearly well-spaced out line that the head-on telephoto shot makes look like a mob.
You don't understand. The original multi million dollar positions with WSB are static now. They're not trading anymore. They can't possibly boost the stock price any further.

The way the stock price goes up is by more volume coming in at the highs. But we are talking 57 M shares traded at noon today with outstanding float of 65M. Those are professional day traders propelling the stock. Buying high and selling higher. It's not WSB.
I gotta give Bloomberg credit here - they really nailed the title on the article. Normally I complain about clickbait but this is right on the money. Gotta give credit where it's due.
Oh okay, I misunderstood and thought they meant precisely the opposite. Thanks!
I am loving every minute of this. The "professionals" gamble on the market all the time, front run, high frequency trade, and relentless tactics to get rich at the expense of the "retail" investors. Now they are upset that apps like Robinhood has provided unprecedented access to the markets. Their exclusive access to insane gambling nonsense is being torn down in real time.

If Wall St can gamble and cause a global financial crisis, I see no reason why "retail" traders can't fuck around on Robinhood and cause some meme stocks to explode.

I think what is really going on here is that the "professionals" are bothered that the "idiots on WSB" are making a mockery of the market. Make no mistake, the market is already a mockery, what's happening now is that the public is finding out.
Discord and telegram are big, but there's no way they're as big as WSB. I can just go to reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets and watch the show, I don't even know how to begin finding the same thing on discord.

And to put into focus how many people are involved here: the GME discussion threads go to tens of thousands of replies within MINUTES of being posted.
There is a high chance that they started closing their position. Just look at other long positions Melvin had and what those started doing, i'll give you a hint : they started going down due to the possibility of them starting to liquidate other positions to raise more cash for covering their shorts.
But this is also speculation, until they release their books on what they own nothing is 100% sure.
My wife and I bought a kitchen worktable from Ikea almost 10 years ago. It is made entirely out of pine and is actually pretty nice. The surface was getting very well used, as I had it in the garage for a workbench for a little while. I took the power planer to it and put some tung oil on it, it looks brand new.
>the longer lens is more conducive to social distancing

Why, because you're liable to hit someone with it when you swing around if they don't give you some space?
I perceive the effort to build this app as a positive and productive step in the correct direction to filter huge amounts of destructive and toxic rhetoric thrown at individuals. Ms Tracy Chou's personal experience with this, her talent, and intellect are a good fit to build tools like this.

One of the downsides of personal filtering is the potential to block out disagreeable relevant truths and facts. Making arguments one-sided and exacerbating the problem of divisive thought in the world.

However, this needed tool is a great and important contribution to the online world.
WallStreetBets hit their threshold on discord - no more invites.
So, can someone explain rationally how options/derivatives are actually useful to the economy, rather than a market manipulation and gambling mechanism?

In the traditional, elementary school understanding of stock, people buy into a company because they want part ownership, and the stock goes up as the company does well and has solid financial strength.

Derivatives seem to be an unnecessary accelerator.
Sure, people are angry. People are angry all the time.

This however is as old as the game itself. It's ALWAYS about greed and fear. That part is as predictable as gravity.
I bought quite a bit around 88, later theorized that shorts would be able to stair-step down to ~60 on circuit breakers yesterday (like the day they did before), so I sold around neutral. Feeling pretty dang dumb now.
What would your top pick for a front end language be?
Is that true? They make a big show of their environmentalism. In general, I'm very disappointed at how difficult it is to make informed consumer choices with respect to the environment. Maybe the idea is that consumer choices are small potatoes and we should all just pour our energy into campaigning for climate policy?
Guess it really depends on how many concurrent users you expect to have...

Sounds like 30 GiB RAM for 1 million concurrent users is not unreasonable:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/17453704
IKEA > (Mega) churches.

There are smaller churches that would benefit from the Govt policies.